ChitFund

Chitfunds are collection of money from specific number of people in specific installments. At the end of each installment a random winner is picked and transfered the money. This is run by a central authority can cause scams. Avoiding the central authority and using smart contract for storing the money and distributing will diminish the fraudulent activities and expenses for the central authority.

How the application work

User is allowed to create Chitfunds and participants can join up to a defined limit. Each participant can pay his installment and after all participants are paid, smart contract picks the winner for the current installment and transfers the money to his wallet. After the transfer collection against the next installment is started.

Smart contract is developed in solidity, compiled by solc and deployed to Rinkeby network using web3.js. NodeJs is used on the server, ReactJs on the front-end along with NextJs.

Dependencies

Install these prerequisites to follow along,

• NPM: https://nodejs.org
• Metamask: https://metamask.io/

Step 1. Clone the project

git clone https://github.com/Jameem/chit-fund.git

Step 2. Install dependencies

$ cd chit-fund
$ npm install

Step 3. Configure metamask and select Rinkeby Test Network

Step 4. Run the Front End Application

$ node server.js Visit this URL in your browser: http://localhost:3000